The sequel is often harder to get right than the first film and it's the same in the motoring world. While the new R8 has a lot to live up to, it also needs to advance the Audi super sportscar game a little further.

BMW's big new 7 Series soon won't be the only next-generation premium car with some neat autonomy tricks: old rival Mercedes-Benz is about to introduce its own take on the self-parking concept, in a model one size down.

Millennials and Generation Z people are more afraid of other motorists driving dangerously than they are of public speaking, spiders, snakes and — bizarrely — even death, according to new research out of the US by independent research company Penn Schoen Berland.